Random links of interest, concern or curiosity from the past week or so, that deserve at least a SHORT mention:

 
Psychologists warn ‘Trump Anxiety Disorder’ is soaring ~ Unemployment is way down, the economy is booming, the ISIS threat in minimized, the world is a safer place… and the drones are losing it. On the one hand, it’s pretty humorous. On the other – these low-information folks are a smoldering powder keg. Who knows when they may blow?

Mental health professionals at the American Psychological Association (APA) revealed in its Stress in America: Coping with Change report that it has the numbers to prove that Trump is driving the nation into a mental crisis.

 
Comedy Threatens Liberalism So Liberals Want To Kill It ~ Kurt Schlichter explains how the Left’s intolerance has sucked all the humor out of entertainment ~

Back when comedy was funny, before it got woke, the left used to use it to undermine traditional culture. Now that they have the wheel of the cultural car, they are afraid that people pointing and giggling at their hypocrisy, venality, and stupidity will make them lose control and crash.

 
Australian university cancels speech by major critic of transgenderism ~ The campus thought police are actively suppressing free speech in Oz also ~

The University of Western Australia (UWA) has canceled a speech by a prominent critic of transgenderism just days after admitting that canceling the speech would set a negative precedent for academic debate.

The rise of Climate superstition: Droughts, heatwaves, random noise is “proof” of anything you like ~ JoNova points out how, by cherry-picking facts, climatists can make any particular weather phenomenon, no matter how brief, fit their pet theory ~

Now, thanks to the discovery of Unscience, any noisy, random short data is fair game to be declared undeniable climate change […]
 
In terms of scientific data analysis we don’t get that many droughts or six-day-August-heatwaves to analyze. They’re complex phenomena caused by multiple factors and we only have short records. This makes them ideal to be oversold to hapless folk as a “sign” of climate change.

 
Italy to restore ‘mother…father’ on website forms, replacing ‘parent 1…parent 2’ ~ Execellent, a return to sanity ~

Matteo Salvini, Italy’s Catholic Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior, appears to be fighting to reestablish the prestige of the natural family while taking a swing at gender ideology.

Europe needs more leaders like this guy ~

Commenting on an attack from the Famiglia Cristiana magazine, which likened him to Satan for his hard-nosed approach to illegal migration, Salvini told La Nuova Bussola Quotidiano that many Catholic laity, priests and bishops have encouraged him to continue in that direction. “The best antidote to racism is migration under control,” he said.

 
Police raid addresses in Nottingham and Birmingham over Westminster ‘terror attack’: British suspect who WAS known to officers but not MI5 ‘used a Ford Fiesta bought two months ago to mow down 15 cyclists’ ~ More vehicular jihad in Londonistan. Fortunately no one was killed… this time.

 
Meanwhile, in Scandinavia ~ Sweden: Masked “youths” rampage in no-go zones, torch 100 cars, “extremely organized,” “like a military operation” ~ Muslim riots air-brushed out of most mainstream news ~

“Youths” is a frequent establishment media euphemism for Muslims. If they were in Britain, they’d be “Asians.”
 
This is indeed a military operation. It is part of the jihad to bring down the Swedish state and replace it with an Islamic government […]
 
Shocking video of fire engulfing numerous vehicles in Gothenburg spread on social media Monday evening with other footage clearly showing masked people in dark clothing intentionally lighting the blazes.

 
Reporter Catches CNN Attempting to Lie About Kermit Gosnell and Abortion ~ A new feature film about the abortionist/ murderer, “Gosnell: The Trial of America’s Biggest Serial Killer” is scheduled for release in October. The mainstreams didn’t cover the shocking story when it unfolded back in 2013 and it looks like they’re determined to ignore the movie as well.
 

Food Donated To Puerto Rico Hurricane Victims Found Rotting In Parking Lot ~ But the bungled relief efforts after last September’s Hurricane Maria were all Trump’s fault? ~

Ten shipping containers filled with food, baby products, and over-the-counter medications like Tylenol — all supplies desperately needed in the days and weeks following Hurricane Maria — were found rotting in a Puerto Rico parking lot last week, never distributed […]

 
The items, Radio Isla reports, were all private donations made by non-profits. Those items were “collected at the election commissions offices, and then distributed to the National Guard,” who gave the items to struggling residents. After the crisis subsided, though, Puerto Rico’s government officials apparently gave up on distributing supplies and left them rotting, still in their trailers, just outside their offices in San Juan.

 
Hospital staff offer euthanasia to incurable Canadian man who wants to live ~ It’s the tragedy many of us warned about: Euthanasia + nationalized health care = death panels ~

“It is the real truth of what is going on in Canada regarding so many assisted deaths without appropriate safeguards, in combination with the lack of necessary care that is not being provided to persons who are suffering,” Foley says.

Massachusetts Republican beats trans driver’s license bill by forcing votes on all 73 genders ~ A creative solution to the trans-insanity. The Massachusetts senate approved legislation adding a “Gender X” option to driver’s licenses. Republican Rep. Jim Lyons foiled them in the state house by pushing their nonsense to its logical conclusion ~

“Since all Democrats must admit that the number of genders is endless, how dare the commonwealth lump all the new genders together as ‘Gender X’?” Carr writes, summarizing Lyons’ facetious reasoning. “Every gender, he declared, must be listed on Massachusetts driver’s licenses! That was Lyons’ non-negotiable demand. No justice, no peace” […]
 
Knowing that his liberal colleagues couldn’t rule any of the genders out of order without undermining the logic of transgender ideology, Lyons introduced each as a separate amendment to the bill the evening of July 31, each requiring 10 minutes of debate and three minutes to vote on.

Eventually they ran out of time; the bill was dropped. Common sense can prevail – even in dark blue states.

 
Aimless fighting in Afghanistan — while we bring Afghanistan to our shores ~ Daniel Horowitz at Conservative Review explains the futility of wasting lives and resources on a foreign quagmire ~

Here’s a novel idea: What if we focused on our own borders, stopped self-destructing through our front-door immigration policies, busted up terror financing networks globally and domestically, and disrupted the Muslim Brotherhood and other radical networks operating here at home?
 
Unlike China, Russia, North Korea, and potentially Iran, nothing that happens in these Sunni hellholes – from Somalia, Yemen, Niger, and Mali to Syria and Afghanistan – can harm us … unless we bring them to our country, as we did for years and are increasingly doing now. Yet our endless and aimless missions, chasing our tails in their sand dunes at a cost of trillions of dollars and thousands of precious U.S. lives, have depleted our resources and our resolve to deal with those who truly pose a conventional threat to our homeland, now or in the future.

The Constitutional Right to a Security Clearance ~ Mark Steyn’s take on the Left’s misplaced outrage over John Brennan’s divestment (w/video) ~

Brennan, a man psychologically unfit to be either CIA director or “former CIA director”, is now the darling of the left – the people’s spook, on whose behalf Senator Blumenthal is arguing that America’s founders had cannily foreseen the need for a security clearance.

 
‘It’s God. It’s All God’: Building Relationships and Sharing Christ in Predominantly Muslim Dearborn ~ Some very encouraging news that I had to learn about from CBN (Christian Broadcasting Network) even though we’re only 20 miles away from Dearborn, MI ~

The church sits less than 10 minutes away from the Islamic Center of America, in the heart of a neighborhood that’s 97 percent Muslim.
 
“Jesus said, ‘I want you here.’ So we’re here,” Hancock said. “And what better place in the whole wide world to find people that don’t know Jesus, that need him and need what Jesus has to offer.”